College of Physics Science and Technology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110000, China
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (11804235), Major Incubation Projects of Shenyang Normal University (51700303) and Support plan for young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation talents of Shenyang City (RC200213)
The oocyte cytoplasmic maturity is important for the oocyte development competence. However, at present, there is still lack of a noninvasive, objective and efficient method to evaluate oocyte cytoplasmic maturity. It is known that the low ooplasm maturity is the main reason that causes the reduced development ability of in-vitro matured oocytes than the in-vivo oocytes. Full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) has the characteristics of noninvasive, label-free, three-dimension and?high-resolution. FF-OCT captured the images of in-vivo and in-vitro matured mouse oocytes. After comparing those FF-OCT images, it was found that the oocytes with the large-area high-brightness cortex and even?cytoplasm may present the higher cytoplasmic maturity. To verify this, the in-vitro fertilization rates of in-vitro matured oocytes which were screened by microscope observation and FF-OCT were compared, and it was found that the in-vitro fertilization rate in the microscope-observation group was much lower than that of in-vivo matured oocytes, the rate in the FF-OCT group had no significant difference from the rate of in-vivo matured oocytes. This indicated that the development ability of in-vitro matured oocytes screened by FF-OCT was close to that of in-vivo matured oocytes. Additionally, FF-OCT successfully observed the morphological differences between the fresh and aging oocytes, namely, the aging oocytes showed the worse cytoplasmic uniformity and smaller area of high-brightness cortex. Thus, FF-OCT can be used for noninvasive assessment of oocyte cytoplasmic quality, and the large-area high-brightness cortex existence and cytoplasmic gray distribution uniformity can be the effective indexes to evaluate the oocyte cytoplasmic maturity.
LIU Mei-Jun, YU Ji, TIAN Ning. Assessment of oocyte quality based on full-field optical coherence tomography[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2020,47(12):1311-1318
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